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• I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.

  Bootsy Collins

  Stars, School, Glasses

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• As a youngster I worked the river boats going down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, pushing barges to Chicago, then all the way down to New Orleans.

  Clint Walker

  Illinois, New Orleans, Rivers

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• As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

  Zig Ziglar

  Mother, Children, People

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• Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to "be smart and not take a lot of punches". It's called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That's what it's about.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Sweet, Jobs, Smart

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• I don't think leaders are born. Well, they're born; everybody's born, but I think leadership can be enhanced, they can be developed, and I think that it's important we do that, particularly with our youngsters.

  Pat Williams

  Thinking, Leader, Important

  Source: nerdreactor.com

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• Maybe more youngsters would stay home at nights if they were not afraid to stay alone at nights.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Inspirational, Home, Night

  Herbert V. Prochnow (1994). “700 Illustrations and Ideas for Speakers”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Player, Risk, Innovation

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• Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

  Edward de Bono

  Teaching, Thinking, Employment

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• To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

  Marion Davies

  Ocean, Venice, Parks

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• Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Attention, Helping, Miserable

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• If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Would Be

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• Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.

  Mike Ditka

  Sweet, Mean, Adults

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• Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Energy, Great Things, Happens

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• As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a fighter pilot, I observed the selection of the Mercury astronauts. All this was fascinating, but I really didn't think I would ever be a part of it. It was only when my good friend Ed White was selected as a Gemini astronaut that I decided to join NASA as part of the Apollo program.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Good Friend, Thinking, White

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.

  Jock Stein

  Boys, Men, Giving

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• The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'

  David Finkelstein

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

  Lynn Davies

  Sports, Athlete, Ambition

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• In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Discovery, May

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• Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising.

  Linford Christie

  Athlete, Track, Coaching

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• Now, I don’t want any of you youngsters to worry — you’ll still have your Potions master when I’m through with him, never fear!” “Wouldn’t it be good if they finished each other off?” Ron muttered in Harry’s ear.

  J. K. Rowling

  Worry, Want, Ears

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.

  Terry Pratchett

  Parent, Age, Hints

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• In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

  Eoin Colfer

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Ignorance, Danger

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.8, Spectra

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• Good to see a youngster who appreciates the importance of being......Well Armed. But...That's not how we play TAG......Where I come from. ~Train Heartnet

  Kentaro Yabuki

  Play, Appreciate, Tag

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• I'm living the life I always dreamed of living. From the time I was a youngster I wanted to be a celebrity. It's a great life. The only bad thing is that people are more interested in your personal life than they are in your work and it's freaky

  Jennifer Lopez

  Live Life, People, Freaky

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